Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thomas Adam (alderman)

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The result was delete. Sandstein 19:00, 23 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thomas Adam (alderman)[edit]

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Article created today about a deceased local politician who doesn't meet WP:NPOL or even WP:GNG. I actually live in the area where he was mayor in 1887 and hadn't heard of him until today. The article is sourced mostly to one of the only two sources. AussieLegend (✉) 08:43, 16 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. AussieLegend (✉) 08:43, 16 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 09:34, 16 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - if it's true that the suburb of Adamstown is named after him then there's some scope to put a paragraph in the suburb article about him. I would be supportive of that if there isn't consensus to keep the article. Deus et lex (talk) 22:52, 16 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- That seems reasonable regardless of the outcome of this discussion. --AussieLegend (✉) 06:13, 17 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Is there anything in the national archives on him? If we can confirm the Adamstown that seems like a good redirect, but there's a chance he may have been notable. The article does need a significant amount of cleanup. SportingFlyer T·C 11:30, 18 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment - I tried Trove but it seems like there's more on his son, also Thomas Adam (who was a well-known resident of Raymond Terrace) than Adam the alderman himself. Some of the Trove sources on his son noted that his father was an original alderman in the (then) Newcastle Borough Council, it does suggest that the naming of Adamstown after him is correct, but I can't find a clear source to confirm. Deus et lex (talk) 09:04, 20 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  - there's more on his son, also Thomas Adam (who was a well-known resident of Raymond Terrace) - He was? I've lived here for 28 years and have been coming to the town since the 1960s and I've never heard of him. I'll have to do a bit of research. --AussieLegend (✉) 09:48, 20 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Newcastle is not a global city for the purposes of handing its municipal councillors an automatic inclusion freebie, and the article is not reliably sourced even remotely close to well enough to get him over WP:GNG as substantively more notable than the norm for city councllors. If a better source can be found for the claim that Adamstown was named after him (which seems plausible, because naming new neighbourhoods after local figures is a thing cities do, but requires better confirmation than a primary source), then obviously a small amount of information about him could be added to Adamstown, New South Wales — but being the namesake of a small suburb is not in and of itself grounds for an inadequately sourced standalone biography. Bearcat (talk) 15:13, 19 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.